November 30
2006

Firefly's Mark Sheppard (Badger) will guest star and have a major role in the finale.

Ron Moore:

Think of it as being a fly on the wall during a dinner party with a group of people delighted to be talking over the ins and outs of their favorite show. In addition to myself and the missus, we were joined by James Callis, Jamie Bamber, Tamoh Penikett, Mark Sheppard (an upcoming guest star with a major role in the finale) and Henry, a child-hood friend of Jamie's who happened to be in town that night.

I think Jane's also co-writing an episode with Anne Cofell-Saunders for later in the season. There was an interview with her in Creative Screnwriting Magazine where she mentions writing another episode with Jane for later in the season. Or maybe it's next season - they really seem to work far in advance over there.

"How many rewrites do you typically go through on an episode?

It all depends on the episode. Generally, each episode goes through a great deal of re-writing. During the episode I was working on last week, "Dirty Hands," which I co-wrote with Jane Espenson [Gilmore Girls, Tru Calling], originally it was just going to be [set] on Galactica. Then we decided to set it elsewhere. Then you have to go back and change all the scenes. President Roslin, now she's in her home environment working at her desk, and it changes the story. It's like a river, because when one episode changes, another episode changes. "

BSG just gets more and more Whedon-related as time goes by. I love it!!

I wonder if he'll be allowed to keep the accent like James Callis, or if he'll have to hide the accent like Jamie Bamber.

This will definetely be a quite interesting guest spot.
Maybe he'll be another cylon model. Lucy Lawless pretty much got introduced that way, last season. With a major guest major, and becoming a major character later on.

Wonder what will happen in the finale, how they'll top New Caprica or Boomer shooting Adama.

Crossoverman, my apologies when I typed that last night it was a momentary *squee* to see Badger and Niska on Medium together. I was kinda excited and I kinda forgot to mention that part, especially since this was about Mark on BG.

Lioness - believe me no one will ever have any problems making conversation with Mark Sheppard, he is quite the talker and he knows stuff on many subjects. Usually just saying Hi is enough to get him started.